The Red Sox -- Felipe Lopez, Ryan Kalish, Eric Patterson -- went quietly in the bottom of the 10th against Mariano Rivera. J.D. Drew, a better hitter than any of the three guys who actually batted in the inning, watched the end of the game from the on-deck circle; he was going to pinch-hit for Kevin Cash.

Dumbo Posada tried very hard to give the game to Boston -- the runs in the seventh and eighth both scored on wild pitches that the Yankee catcher botched. A third run nearly scored on Posada's throwing error after the eighth-inning wild pitch, but Josh Reddick was thrown out trying to score from second by Ramiro Pena, with Kerry Wood making the tag.

Mike Lowell hit a two-run double to right-center in the first, walked and scored in the third, and singled high off the Wall in the fifth.

painful listening to mccarver with that atlanta 1992 story. he clearly, very early on, had no idea what he was talking about or who the players involved were, and he went slowly through it, making mistakes. ouch.

SoSHer LynnRice75: "Wow. The Sox lost a nut-crunching extra inning game to the Yankees that featured Paplebon in a crucial situation, a nearly unknown batter up in crunch time, and a cheap Jeter hit. I did not see that coming!"